AMN / IMPHAL
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh submitted a resignation letter from the post of Chief Minister of the State today to Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla. Shri Biren, who led the BJP government in Manipur since the party came to power in 2017, stepped down amid ongoing political developments in the state. His resignation comes after months of unrest in the state and internal party politics.
The internal party politics over the leadership of the State BJP government have been taking place for many days in the State. Chief Minister N. Biren Singh arrived in Imphal along with BJP Lok Sabha MP and BJP North East In Charge Sambit Patra this afternoon from Delhi, where he also had a meeting with party leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Soon after his arrival at Imphal, Shri Biren chaired a meeting with the MLAs of the ruling party at the CM Secretariat Imphal, and afterwards, he met the Governor of Manipur, Ajay Kumar Bhalla, at Raj Bhavan in Imphal.
There he submitted his resignation paper to the governor. Meanwhile, the seventh session of the ongoing 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly is scheduled to commence tomorrow. However, the 12th sitting Assembly Session will be held with Shri Biren Singh as the caretaker of the CM, or a new leader for the post of CM will be sworn in before the session remains a question as of now.
“I am extremely grateful to the Central government for timely actions, interventions, developmental work and implementation of various projects for safeguarding the interest of every single Manipuri,” Singh’s resignation letter read.
The resignation comes a day after Singh asserted that his government had been making all efforts to restore peace in the strife-torn state.
More than 250 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless since ethnic violence broke out in Manipur in May 2023.
On the day Singh resigned, unidentified gunmen looted arms from India Reserve Battalion outpost in Manipur’s Thoubal district.